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such a disheartening down -pour as made the mud- 

 pudding in which the Prussian artillery stuck on their 

 way to Waterloo, when the Duke kept looking at his 

 watch every moment, and it was so nearly all up with 

 the hopes of the gallant long-pounded English army. 



A week since the water had begun to "fine/' and 

 one evening we went down to a famous salmon-run 

 with full fresh paraphernalia, bent on doughty deeds ; 

 but, after an hour spent exposed to a sprightly breeze, 

 we had to return home as darkness fell, without having 

 been indulged with even a sight of a fish, but having 

 caught a violent cold. 



Oh ! the tortures of that neuralgic night ! It was 

 impossible to get a single wink of sleep until I had 

 plastered my temples with a mixture of powdered 

 ginger and whiskey, having applied a strong dab of 

 the same in brown paper to the nape of my neck. It 

 is an excellent remedy, but the ginger must be keen : 

 stale, it is of no use. As regards toothache, it is worth 

 knowing that there are two sorts — the one dependent 

 on cold, the other arising from acidity in a hollow 

 tooth. This latter kind (the toothache of children) 

 may be instantaneously cured by a filling in of car- 

 bonate of soda. It is just as well first to cleanse the 

 cavity, and dry it with a pinch of cotton-wool, as a 

 dentist does in preparation for stopping with gold. 

 You may readily know which sort of toothache the 

 patient is suffering from, if you press the pulse tightly 

 at the wrist. The pain being neuralgic, it will be 

 momentarily arrested by the check to the blood's flow ; 

 whereas if it be local toothache, owing to the presence 

 of acidity (late sweetmeats) in the hollow, this squeezing 

 of the artery will not affect the sensation. 



